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Ghana: Budget Monitoring by SEND-Ghana and its Partners Helps Improve Nutrition for Children and Support Local FarmersINTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUNDThe International Budget Partnership (IBP) collaborates with a diverse network of civil society organizations around the world that analyze and monitor government budgets and advocate for better budget policies and more open…

A one week orientation and gender training has been organized for 32 new staff of SEND-GHANA at Salaga in the Northern Region of Ghana. All the new staff would be working on SEND’s Livelihood Security programme in the Eastern corridor of Ghana. A key project driving the Livelihood Security programme…

The Agona East District, which was created about six years ago, has no district hospital. The situation has compelled expectant mothers who live in the district to seek medical care at Salvation Army Hospital, a private facility. In view of this, it has become even more difficult for the district…

The World Bank has released the list of finalists for second round of Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA) grants. The selection of eight new project countries included Ghana, Uganda, Moldova, Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco, Mongolia, Paraguay and Tunisia. The grants, totaling close to US$6 million over the next…

The Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region recorded four maternal, in 2011, five in 2012 and 6 deaths in 2013. The trend shows a worrying annual increment in maternal mortality in the district in spite of ongoing interventions such as the millennium project, which is also contributing to the…

Over the last 3 decades, the Ghana government and its development partners have implemented many policy options; all geared towards addressing challenges hindering the provision of affordable and quality healthcare at the rural communities. The implementation of the Ghana Community Health Planning Services (CHPS) is one of government’s programmes addressing…

The Challenge of Climate Change has become very topical globally because of its importance as a life sustaining or devastating issue.Manifestations of climate change include crop failures, water stress, very high and humid temperatures, excessive floods, severe and prolonged droughts, coastal erosion, erratic rainfall patterns, rising sea levels etc. all…

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Introduction Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana largely rely on national fiscal transfers from the central government for the development of their territorial jurisdictions. However, reliance on such central government transfers has been found to be insufficient for the Assemblies to discharge the full scope of their responsibilities.…

Some Queen mothers in the Brong Ahafo region have endorsed SEND-GHANA’s Soya drink, Soya stew, Soya Koose and Soya Khebab.According to them the taste of the range of products from soya can match up to the imported ones. They were, therefore, of the view that SEND should train more people…

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) in collaboration with the Ghana Federation for the Disabled (GFD) is petitioning the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and the Administrator of the Common Fund to address issues related to the two percent of District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF) allocation to…

Participants at stakeholder's consultative meeting in Accra on 24 June have called on Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to work closely with each other in order tomaximize the impact of development interventions at the local level. They called for full implementation of the National…